Inventions, firsts, and turning points tied to today’s date — each one sourced and dated.
On this day in 1997, a Scottish lab introduced the world to a lamb grown from a single adult cell.
A roster of American college players stunned the four-time-defending Soviet hockey machine 4-3 in one of sport's great upsets.
The future commander and first president was born on a tobacco plantation in colonial Virginia—on a date that itself shifted with the calendar.